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Submit a sighting of Vespa crabro (hornet)

Reporting your sightings of Vespa crabro

 

For the first time, BWARS has enabled online recording for this wonderful spring-emerging species of wasp. No dedicated recording effort purely for this species has been launched in Britain before and an accurate picture of its current distribution is lacking. Questions we are keen to address include:

  1. What is its current range and distribution?
  2. Is there any sign of range change since the BWARS atlas was published?
  3. What nesting sites are being used?
  4. When do the first workers appear?

If you have any records of this large, colourful and distinctive social wasp, please submit the full details via this online recording platform. There is a facility for uploading photographs to support records if you have them. Please include any information on numbers, sexes, flower visitation, nesting sites and behaviour in the "Comments" section.

How to identify Vespa crabro

Queen Hornet  Photo: Nigel Jones
Male Hornet  Photo: Steve Falk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are about to submit a sighting of a hornet, Vespa crabro. First, tell us who identified it and provide photos of the record if you have any. This information will help us confirm the record
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Please provide the spatial reference of the record. You can enter the reference directly in the Grid Ref box, or search for a place to zoom the map then click on the map to set it. The more the map is zoomed in, the more precise the grid square will be.
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Please tell us when you saw the record and provide any additional information.
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